could probably code a simple form to do that for you.
I had considered MonHarc back in the day, but never got around to
implementing it. And since it's probably not secure these days (see
previous message in this thread) I'm glad I didn't.
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Bill Christensen
http://Sustain
ban ready to install but just haven't had time to configure it
yet.
On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 9:07 AM, Adam McGreggor
wrote:
> On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 02:38:01PM +0100, David Osborne wrote:
> > On 15/05/15 05:32, Bill Christensen wrote:
> > >I long ago routed real users to an
ajor
lists we run continue to work as intended.
Thanks for your help!
On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 11:07 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote:
> On 05/17/2015 10:14 PM, Bill Christensen wrote:
> > On Sun, May 17, 2015 at 6:26 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote:
> >
>
> >> If this is a one-time oc
On Sun, May 17, 2015 at 6:26 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote:
> On 05/17/2015 01:58 PM, Bill Christensen wrote:
> >
> > I'm using Gmail for all our email addresses, and pulling the mail into
> > Mailman using Fetchmail. It's been working fine for years.
> >
> &
Mark,
Adding the line
SUBSCRIBE_FORM_SECRET = 'Some string unique to your site"
in mm_cfg.py definitely made a huge difference to the spam registration
problem I was having. Looks like I may not need to migrate the list to a
new address after all.
One more problem to solve.
I'm using
Excellent. I didn't know about the clone_list script.
On 5/15/15 12:21 AM, Mark Sapiro wrote:
Privacy options... -> Subscription rules -> subscribe_policy st to
Require approval and then discard all requests.
when you say "discard all requests", is there a way to do that
automatically? With
Hi all,
I have a long running list with thousands of subscribers that needs to
move to a new set of email addresses.
The existing list is announce-only, so doesn't get a whole lot of
traffic - typically at most a few outgoing emails a year. But some time
back a bot started sending spam regi
Hi all,
I recently updated and my digests stopped going out (I was able to push out
the waiting digest manually by doing
/opt/local/share/mailman/cron/senddigests so I know the function is
working). My old notes tell me the command for cron is:
sudo /opt/local/share/mailman/cron/crontab -u mailm
On 3/20/15 8:52 AM, Tanstaafl wrote:
On 3/19/2015 6:47 PM, Lindsay Haisley wrote:
In many mail user agents, when you press the "Reply" button the program
will analyze the headers, determine that the post being replied to came
from a list and offer a "Reply to List" option in addition to a simpl
On 1/26/15 11:27 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote:
On 01/26/2015 09:12 PM, Bill Christensen wrote:
All the archives work when in private state. But I had to manually
change the owner of all the publicly available list archives to _www in
private in order for them to be readable. Otherwise they get a big
On 1/26/15 9:32 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote:
On 01/26/2015 06:08 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote:
You weren't supposed to remove/move archives/private, just the
subordinate listname directories.
And once again, I misspoke (mistyped). I again meant the subordinate
listname directories under archives/public, no
On 1/25/15 7:27 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote:
On 01/25/2015 05:21 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
Mark Sapiro writes:
> The solution is simple:
>
> rm -r archives/private/*
You mean "rm -r archives/public/*", don't you? As given it erases all
the data, no?
Oh My yes! Absolutely! I hope nobody
Hi folks,
I recently discovered that all my lists stopped archiving back in
October. I have no clear idea as to what caused that, but I suspect
that it may have occurred as part of some hardware and software upgrades
I did around that time.
I'm still stuck back at Mailman 2.1.13 because the
The MacPorts version works - I've been using it for years - but note
that it's a good number of dot-revisions behind the current Mailman
version, which is at least 2.1.18 and has some fixes I'd like to see.
Unfortunately, nobody's actively maintaining the port. I thought about
doing it mysel
On 7/11/14 6:26 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote:
On 07/10/2014 11:13 AM, Bill Christensen wrote:
The setup: Moving from Mac OS 10.8.5 to 10.9.4, on a MAMP setup,
everything installed using MacPorts. Upgrading MySQL, PHP, and
PostgreSQL in the process. MacPorts hasn't upgraded Mailman beyond
2.1.
Hey folks,
I'm doing an upgrade/reinstall on one of my servers, and when I put
Mailman back on I'm getting a group mismatch error. It's happened to me
before, but I don't remember the exact procedure to make it work properly.
The setup: Moving from Mac OS 10.8.5 to 10.9.4, on a MAMP setup,
That did the trick.
Thanks again.
On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 11:39 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote:
> On 05/14/2014 07:58 PM, Bill Christensen wrote:
> > Here you go:
> >
> > admin(38814): [- Traceback --]
> > admin(38814): Traceback (most recent call last):
> >
Do you have the virtual domains listed at the end of
../mailman/mailman/mm_cfg.py ?
Something like:
DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST = '103.greenbuilder.com'
DEFAULT_URL_HOST = '103.greenbuilder.com'
add_virtualhost(DEFAULT_URL_HOST, DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST)
add_virtualhost('builderswithoutborders.org','builderswi
ntally hit "reply" instead of "reply list")
On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 6:52 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote:
> On 05/14/2014 10:42 AM, Bill Christensen wrote:
> >
> > The problem_list gets "we hit a bug", but since I've taken the
> > subscription form off
On 5/14/14 10:35 AM, Mark Sapiro wrote:
Sorry, that's my mistake. It should be if listname == 'problem_list':
i.e., ==, not =.
Comparing subscribe.py with subscribe.py.bak, it appears that it's in there
as written.
I was wondering about that.
Thanks. Now the problem_list is disallowed from w
ame.
The same happens on other lists as well.
Comparing subscribe.py with subscribe.py.bak, it appears that it's in there
as written.
Any ideas?
On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 5:10 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote:
> On 05/13/2014 12:54 PM, Bill Christensen wrote:
> >
> > Sorry to be dense
Very wide. Vietnam, China, New York, France just at a quick look.
I'm looking into fail2ban now. Thanks to those of you who have mentioned
it.
On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 3:12 PM, Robert Heller wrote:
> At Tue, 13 May 2014 14:54:26 -0500 Bill Christensen <
> billc_li...@greenbuil
I finally got a chance to look over the logs today; this is a widely
distributed attack, so address blocking is probably futile.
Sorry to be dense, but how do I apply that patch?
Thanks
On Fri, May 9, 2014 at 3:19 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote:
> On 05/09/2014 12:12 PM, Bill Christensen wr
On 5/9/14 1:25 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote:
On 05/09/2014 10:46 AM, Bill Christensen wrote:
I temporarily removed the signup form from the listinfo page in hopes of
stemming the tide, and replaced it with a request to use the site's
contact form so that we can manually add interested subscriber
On 5/8/14 12:02 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote:
On 05/08/2014 09:31 AM, Bill Christensen wrote:
Question 1: Is it possible to reverse the order of approval and
confirmation when requiring both? The admin then can reject all those
with duplicates, only allowing the (presumably real) single subscription
Hi all,
I've got a problem with one of my lists where it's being flooded with
spurious subscription requests.
The list was set to require subscription confirmation; the innocent
victims whose addresses were used for the subscription requests started
complaining, as they'd get anywhere from 2
On 10/11/11 7:01 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote:
Bill Christensen wrote:
Recent upgrade borked my setup.
[Prior posts indicate this is Mac OS 10.7 server]
Group Mismatch error once again, and adding the configure line
--with-mail-gid=staff
and removing the line
--with
Recent upgrade borked my setup.
Group Mismatch error once again, and adding the configure line
--with-mail-gid=staff
and removing the line
--with-mail-gid=${mmgroup}
as suggested doesn't fix it.
What to do? How can I keep this from happening whenever I do a major
upgrade/reinstall
(and removing the line --with-mail-gid=${mmgroup} ) as suggested doesn't
fix it.
Next step? It seems I go through this every time I do an install of
Mailman...
On 10/10/11 8:52 PM, Bill Christensen wrote:
Hi all,
(cross posted to Macports-users and Mailman-users lists, as I'm not
Hi all,
(cross posted to Macports-users and Mailman-users lists, as I'm not sure
where the answer to the problem is more likely to come from)
I upgraded a server the other day to Mac OS 10.7, and due to a new
version of Macports required an uninstall/reinstall of Mailman.
As seems to be the
Attempting to do updates tonight, I ran into problems with upgrading
help2man. I was able to manually update most other ports. The log for
help2man says:
:info:configure configure: error: perl module Locale::gettext required
:info:configure shell command " cd
"/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_
be able to set Mailman to accept all mail from the
original list.
It'll be automatically archived.
--
Bill Christensen
<http://greenbuilder.com/contact/>
Green Building Professionals Directory: <http://directory.greenbuilder.com>
Sustainable Building Calendar: <http:/
ing Mailman
2.1.11/Python 2.3, has the same line and no problems with it.
Any ideas? Do I need to upgrade or patch Python, and if so which
2.5 or better version works with Mailman?
thanks
--
Bill Christensen
<http://greenbuilder.com/contact/>
Green Building Professionals Dire
At 8:23 AM -0700 10/9/08, Mark Sapiro wrote:
Bill Christensen wrote:
Is there a way to change the timestamp on mail to moderated lists to
display the time it is approved/sent by Mailman instead of the time
of the orignal sender's post?
Only by changing the source code, and it isn
list mail displays "below the fold"
(out of sight) in busy user's mailbox. In some cases that lag is
intentional in order to release announcements at the most
advantageous time. If it's not visible in the user's box it kinda
defeats the purpose.
--
Bill Christensen
<ht
enaming
config.pck.last. The key is that there be no config.pck.last when you
go to the admindb page.
Yes, it is Mac
Thanks. Renaming config.pck.last let me in. Looks like all is well now.
I'll have to remember this one.
--
Bill Christensen
<http://greenbuilder.com/contact/>
Green Build
sions should be drwxrwsr-x and the group should be
mailman. The owner is normally root or the web server (nobody?)
depending on how the list was created.
Yes, it's drwxrwsr-x and the owner and group match all the other
(working) lists
--
Bill Christensen
<http://greenbuilder.com/con
At 2:40 PM -0700 9/29/08, Mark Sapiro wrote:
Bill Christensen wrote:
At 12:48 PM -0700 9/29/08, Mark Sapiro wrote:
Bill Christensen wrote:
Sep 29 12:55:06 2008 admin(23693):
admin(23693): [- Mailman Version: 2.1.11 -]
admin(23693
At 12:48 PM -0700 9/29/08, Mark Sapiro wrote:
Bill Christensen wrote:
Sep 29 12:55:06 2008 admin(23693):
admin(23693): [- Mailman Version: 2.1.11 -]
admin(23693): [- Traceback --]
admin(23693): Traceback (most recent call last
Bill Christensen wrote:
I can't get into the admin on a single list.
Tried permissions repair, no help.
Tried replacing config.pck, no help
Tried replacing config.pck.last, no help
Error log says:
OSError: [Errno 22] Invalid argument:
'/usr/local/mailman/lists/aen/confi
I can't get into the admin on a single list.
Tried permissions repair, no help.
Tried replacing config.pck, no help
Tried replacing config.pck.last, no help
Error log says:
OSError: [Errno 22] Invalid argument:
'/usr/local/mailman/lists/aen/config.pck.last'
Where t
errors ..
I'll leave the answer to this one to those who are more familiar with Mailman.
--
Bill Christensen
<http://greenbuilder.com/contact/>
Green Building Professionals Directory: <http://directory.greenbuilder.com>
Sustainable Building Calendar: <http://www.greenbuilde
used a regex that looked for characters followed by
an @ followed by more characters. It then replaced everything from
the @ to the next space with "...".
It appears that the code which does the obfuscation is in
($prefix)/Mailman/Mailman/Archiver/HyperArch.py between lines 280 and
290 in
load - how many messages per
week or month on average, and what the averages is of the total
megabytes used.
--
Bill Christensen
<http://greenbuilder.com/contact/>
Green Building Professionals Directory: <http://directory.greenbuilder.com>
Sustainable Building Calendar: <http:/
At 4:14 PM -0700 8/26/08, Mark Sapiro wrote:
Bill Christensen wrote:
I'm having trouble with the web interface again. I added a couple
new lists today and stopped/started both fetchmail and mailman to
make sure they would pick up the new addresses. It appears that my
lists are still ru
ed for corrupt config files using:
echo > noop.py "def noop(mlist): return"
./withlist -a -r noop
(all showed "unlocked")
I've checked the logs. No sign of anything specific there.
I can't find the cause.
--
Bill Christensen
<http://greenbuilder.com/contact/&
.org/pipermail/watchdogs/2008-July/000764.html>
(both of these display properly wrapped in my Eudora/Mac)
It appears that a fair number of pipermail archived posts aren't
wrapped. Any way to keep that from happening?
--
Bill Christensen
<http://greenbuilder.com/contact/>
Green Buil
g the
archives elsewhere? Can they just be moved and a symlink put in
their place? Or is it best to define the path in a config file (and
if so, which one)?
Thanks
--
Bill Christensen
<http://greenbuilder.com/contact/>
Green Building Professionals Directory: <http://directory.gr
chmod 2775 /usr/local/mailman/archives/public
Then put the Options +FollowSymLinks in an appropriate Directory block
in the Apache config.
--
Bill Christensen
<http://greenbuilder.com/contact/>
Green Building Professionals Directory: <http://directory.greenbuilder.com>
Sustainable Build
At 6:59 PM -0700 7/4/08, Mark Sapiro wrote:
Bill Christensen wrote:
I just moved my Mailman/Apache/Postfix server to a new hard drive,
and in the process managed to make the public archives inaccessible.
Private archives work fine, as does everything else as far as I can
tell.
I suspect that
the Apache config file, and all the paths and rules
there look like they should work.
Any ideas where else I should search for a fix?
--
Bill Christensen
<http://greenbuilder.com/contact/>
Green Building Professionals Directory: <http://directory.greenbuilder.com>
Sustainable Bu
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modifying source code.
Assuming that the rant URLs are known, couldn't he just use the spam filter?
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<http://greenbuilder.com/contact/>
Green Building Professionals Directory: <http://directory.greenbuilder.com>
Sustainable Building Calendar: <http://www.gre
er addresses,
and bouncing back to the -bounce address. If
that's the case, stop autoreplying to non member
mail - or teach your moderators to discard rather
than reject.
Spam filtering before it gets to Mailman is still probably the best choice.
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<http://gree
On 3/19/08, Mark Sapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> A group mismatch will result in the wrapper exiting with a non-zero
> status and issuing a message which should appear somewhere.
>
> Other errors should be logged in Mailman's error log.
If it gets that far. I'm suspecting that there's
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